Alert 5

This week, the Royal Air Force Eurofighter detachment in the Baltic States will be making low-level training flights at 500ft in Estonia, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.

Photo: SAC Ben Stevenson/MOD [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Operation Yahalom, a bold plan by Israel to have a Iraqi MiG-21 pilot defect to Israel along with his aircraft.

Photo: Israeli Air Force
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Russia announced that its Tu-22M3 bombers based in Iran’s Hamadan air base have carried out air strikes in Syria.

Source: Social Media
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The Royal Air Force has dispatched a CH-47 to help recover the wreckage of a Griffin helicopter that caught fire after an emergency landing on Yr Aran mountain in Scotland Wales on Aug. 9.

Photo: Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team
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